CLOSING THOUGHTS
Commentary and opinion by Chuck Harder
A noted broadcast broker Mr. Frank Boyle has reviewed my work. He encouraged me to send a complete file to Mel Karmazin of SIRIUSXM Radio. I did so by US Express Mail
EH168400199US and the package was received November 14 at the 1221 Avenue Of The Americas address in New York City. So far I have not had any response from them.
I also sent a file to Mr. Gordon Smith the Chairman of the NAB. So far no response. I e-mailed files to the NAB over the last two years and also to a large Internet Radio service LIVE 365.
Their silence is deafening.
One of my projects has been to research the most jukebox plays of records since 1955. I have transferred 1,400 of them to a hard drive on my automation machine. It sits mute as there is no way I can comply with the new "LAWS" in the guise of "rules" that the Copyright Royalty Board has enacted by the desire of Sound Exchange. In short, most automation gear will be obsolete if broadcasters come under this umbrella of nonsense and what I believe is criminal deceit.
Why hasn't the OBAMA Administration's Department of Competition, and Federal Trade Commission not acted against this terrible crippling monopoly? Answer: MONEY
Although we recorded many songs at our recording studio in Tampa circa 1964-72 the groups that cut them most likely disbanded years ago or are dead. I have searched for a few but cannot find any of them. But Sound Exchange will collect royalties for them and also "easy listening music" that was recorded offshore in the last 50 years by unknown orchestras. As they say in the trade, "Elvis is dead but he ain't broke." His heirs get royalties but the carpenters and craftsmen who built his mansion, or recorded and pressed his records get nothing. Is this the United States of America that our people have gone offshore during war times and died for us?
I'll leave you with this fact. Several years ago before Peoples Radio Network was destroyed in a hostile takeover by the UAW I did a show honoring our Vets. I found a cut of GOD BLESS AMERICA by Kate Smith. In order to play it on my national talk show I had to pay the HARRY FOX OFFICE $300.00 for the song written by the late Irving Berlin.
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Commentary and opinion by Chuck Harder
A noted broadcast broker Mr. Frank Boyle has reviewed my work. He encouraged me to send a complete file to Mel Karmazin of SIRIUSXM Radio. I did so by US Express Mail
EH168400199US and the package was received November 14 at the 1221 Avenue Of The Americas address in New York City. So far I have not had any response from them.
I also sent a file to Mr. Gordon Smith the Chairman of the NAB. So far no response. I e-
Their silence is deafening.
One of my projects has been to research the most jukebox plays of records since 1955. I have transferred 1,400 of them to a hard drive on my automation machine. It sits mute as there is no way I can comply with the new "LAWS" in the guise of "rules" that the Copyright Royalty Board has enacted by the desire of Sound Exchange. In short, most automation gear will be obsolete if broadcasters come under this umbrella of nonsense and what I believe is criminal deceit.
Why hasn't the OBAMA Administration's Department of Competition, and Federal Trade Commission not acted against this terrible crippling monopoly? Answer: MONEY
Although we recorded many songs at our recording studio in Tampa circa 1964-
I'll leave you with this fact. Several years ago before Peoples Radio Network was destroyed in a hostile takeover by the UAW I did a show honoring our Vets. I found a cut of GOD BLESS AMERICA by Kate Smith. In order to play it on my national talk show I had to pay the HARRY FOX OFFICE $300.00 for the song written by the late Irving Berlin.
That says it all. -